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- A sadisitic landlord manipulates the lives of his tenants through a network of surveillance cameras installed throughout the building.
- A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.
- Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?
- Two best friends So-so and Nancy are love-struck by the same handsome Japanese boy who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.
- A tribute from filmmakers and critics around the world to the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the 1980s.
- A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There are only 452 defenders, but to mislead the Japanese they tell the outside world that they are 800 in number. Their heroism leads to them becoming known as the 800 Heroes.
- A 12-year-old girl's dilemma between a friendship and a possible future.
- It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse.
- This film tells of a woman's never-ending struggle to keep herself and her family fed and clothed.
- A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.
- Three consecutive seasons at an ecological summer camp.
- Fong, a Taiwanese woman has relocated to Canada with her husband Kwok. Fong suspects that Kowk is cheating on her on his regular business trips to Taiwan.
- Jack of Spade, Min-Jay, and Camel are best friends from the same elementary school. Jack of Spade is spoiled by his wealthy family, Camel is fiercely working class, and Min-Jay is so nervously shy about his poor background, he almost quit school if it weren't for the help of his buddies. During Highschool, the three fell for the same girls: Black Skin & White Fang. However, they have difficulty communicating their feelings, so they daydream and pass around love letters. After Highschool, the three went separate ways. Min-Jay became a cop, while Jack of Spade became a gambler and lived off his prostitute wife: White Fang. Camel, on the other hand, has became a most wanted gangster after a life of crime. Min-Jay, now a cop, has been ordered to capture Camel but is torn between his best friend and his duty.
- A soldier from Mainland China arrives at Hong Kong to look for his estranged sister and finds out that she has been forced into prostitution by a criminal organization.
- A clever and lively girl who gets lost in the world of radio drama runs away from home to search for her imaginary mother. A scoundrel claims to be the girl's father to escape from police. They encounter two women in the mountains: one is tortured by her workaholic husband who engages madly in his scientific research, the other is a pure and naive girl living in the mountains. Typhoon is now coming.
- An anthology of 3 short films about a Hong Kong car mechanic, a Chinese man who is released from a labor camp and a struggling Taiwanese restaurant owner. The one thing that they all have in common is that they have the name Ah Fu.
- City-slicker DJ Li Tong Zhe heads to the mountain regions of central Taiwan to record sounds for a 921 earthquake memorial segment. Staying with a teacher in a Bunun village, he finds himself worlds away from the life he knows in Taipei. Tong Zhe meets A-Bu, a 10-year-old boy who lost his eyesight after the earthquake and keeps himself shut away from other people. A-Bu's teacher Zu Wei is teaching him folk songs, hoping that music will open his voice and heart. While helping A-Bu and Zu Wei, Tong Zhe realizes what has been missing from his own life.
- Gen. Cheng Tsu-chung, the "Mars of China", is held in high esteem by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.
- It's the year 1999, Hei-shu (Kuroki), a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band, performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu's cat is missing. He later suspects that the cat has turned into a woman called Yokulut. Hei-shu is a, so called, "Japanese Culture Buff". He believes that he was Japanese in his previous life and was named "Tesuo" (the character from a very popular Japanese cartoon). Hei-shu is obsessed with Gao Ya-qi, a a female news anchor. He shares a special world with Gao. From time to time, Gao talks to him personally on the TV screen. Later, she also warns Hei-shu better to keep his job. Otherwise, he might be one of the targets of the government's conspiracy - to terminate worthless individuals, especially the unemployed ones. The irony is that no one in the band can play any musical instruments.... On the eve of the millennium new year, every secret seems to have a different key to its mysteries...
- A Canadian writer and a Taiwanese pregnant teenager meet in a village in the east coast of Taiwan.
- Nara, Japan, A.D. 763. In Toshodai Temple, Chinese Buddhist Master the Venerable Jian Zhen dies, aged 76, after nine years in Japan. His Japanese disciple Si Tuo remembers how in 733 he and another monk were sent to China to learn from Buddhist scriptures there and to try and convince Jian Zhen to come to Japan with other Chinese monks to develop and purify Buddhism in their country. After 10 years they finally get to meet Jian Zhen at Daming Temple in Yangzhou and persuade him to travel to Japan. Jian Zhen chooses 17 other Chinese monks to accompany him, but one, Ru Hai, betrays their secret mission to the Chinese authorities. Later that year, in December 743, Jian Zhen and Co. set out again but are shipwrecked off the coast of Zhejiang, where monks inform on them and they are arrested by the Chinese authorities to keep Jian Zhen in the country. Next, Jian Zhen and Co. try to cross the mountains in winter to Fuzhou and charter a ship from there, but are again caught by the authorities. Three years later, in June 748, they make their fifth attempt, even though Jian Zhen's eyesight is now failing, but are swept south by a storm to Zhenzhou, where they are almost killed by fierce natives but are finally welcomed by a Zhenzhou dignitary and given an old temple to renovate. In 751 they set out for the sixth time via Yangzhou, where a Japanese ambassador, Fujiwara, finally smuggles them out on a ship. In December 753 Jian Zhen and his monks reach Japan, where they are presented with their own temple in Nara.
- Fake ghosts haunt a murderer, until he is driven mad and accidentally kills his own sister.
- Two swordsmen undertake the task of escorting a noble woman up country and across very harsh terrain. During the time they spend together the two swordsmen start falling for the woman and they start to resent each other. However, a common enemy helps fix the broken bond between them. From Taiwan a first class award winning swordplay film.